It was reported everywhere as £2.5m (including by Blackpool's local rag) and even that was probably wasn't all up front, I suspect the £4m is nonsense.
Surely there's not a chance it was a £4m fee up front for Joseph. Blackpool couldn't afford to have held out for that?
The strangest thing about the Joseph signing was he’s not really played a lot on the wing. We signed up to play as the number 9. Then needs must as he wasn’t scoring and ‘worked hard’ he got banished to the wing, like lost miss firing strikers do. Only speculating but I assume Selles wanted the transfer as he managed in the same league as him and must know everything about him. If it’s him that’s suggest Joseph to sign him, wouldn’t be surprised if Acun used it as another excuse for sacking him? Purely guessing all of this mind.
A goal would do Joseph the world of good, he played mostly as a wide man, having changed to a low scoring team half way through a season, to the highest league he played in, at 23. People talk about getting a 15 goal a season striker, in the championship thats £20 million....by my calculations he needs 3 goals next season to be value for money
When Morris played for Luton against us in March at the MKM, he looked awkward, cumbersome and his finishing was woeful - I remember him smashing a shot over the bar.
Like you only speculating, plus maybe reading between the lines when Selles was sacked, I believe Selles's either proposing or at least supporting the decision to spend that sort of money on Joseph was a big contributing factor to the owners quoted 'loss of confidence' in Selles as the right man to take us forward. I get the mitigating comments about him being played out wide a lot of the time, but for £2.5 mill it was a shocking waste of money at a time when we desperately needed someone to improve our attack. But, clean slate I guess for this coming season. Hopefully he makes us all eat some humble pie .... but I just don't see it as he looks so limited.
His finishing was just the one shot fro. Memory, but he beat our centre backs to every ball and was a real handful.
I remember it being a polarising thing at the time. I think both are true. He did have a couple of poor touches/shots, but he also bullied our defenders. Hughes was particularly struggling with him and got quite flustered in the first half. Then straight after half time we couldn't handle a simple long ball up to him, the ball fell into a dangerous area and the bizarre own goal happened as we tried to recover. He was a handful.
